LITT Meeting - March 18, 2009

RBUSD Lead Instructional Technology Teachers Meeting
March 18, 2009
8:00AM to 3:30PM

Short Agenda

Data Collection with Survey Monkey
Social Bookmarking for Professional Development with Delicious
RSS for Professional Development with Google Reader (Time Permitting)
LUNCH
Teacher Leadership Discussion
Online Learning Communities with Ning
Streaming Video in Education with Ustream (Time Permitting)

Welcome Activity

Today's Welcome Activity
Welcome Activities (A Blog Post)

Overview: Data Collection for Data Driven Decision Making using Survey Monkey

Demonstration: The Evaluation for This Session
Walk-Through: Design, Collect, and Analyze
Survey Monkey Help
Professional Development Evaluations (A Blog Post)

Activity: Create A Proof-of-Concept Survey (For Use in Your Roll as a Teacher or as a LITT)

Create a survey you might actually use with your students, your staff, or with parents.
Post a link to your survey below to share with your fellow LITTs (who will be test-participants for you):
- Take Cindy's survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BSBIk3_2ben_2bmJF_2bhzusNvdg_3d_3d
- Take Diane's survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Wmh_2b88NmKYx4baB90M2oFA_3d_3d
- Take Susi's Survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=FpG4beztl43erWd131L2Yw_3d_3d
- Take Eileen's Survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=LFvBSOKue7J12eGr0TEiow_3d_3d
- Take Jirika's Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=U7TH68szzSW4izxiklwrWg_3d_3d
- Take Julie's Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=prOppmrClIFwQer0RR3qcQ_3d_3d
- Take Bonnie's Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=iTtyqGauaXiqi22YTvntiA_3d_3d
- Take Nadine's Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JKLcX3_2fQPqR8r_2fvzTCJgAw_3d_3d
- Take Julie's Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fs6PVXOCl38DTFig3ZnQPQ_3d_3d
- Take a staff survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=GCuerfEb51SccDVmSFXwnw_3d_3d
- Take Tim's survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=L_2flr1pfw0hwddn3wtmHb_2bw_3d_3d
- Take Amanda's survery: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=8ewlCpt0PGiL7AZed9GOAw_3d_3d
- Take Christina's survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=oSrl8omTtQcH57FIkDrRtg_3d_3d
- Take Susi's homeworkd survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7aP3HGnbgdmMFY4n1KzHsg_3d_3d

If you'd like to... create a copy of your survey to use with real participants.

Overview: Social Bookmarking for Professional Development using Delicious

See the Social Bookmarking in Plain English video from the Common Craft Show
See also the wikipedia article on Social Bookmarking
Join Now
Install Bookmarklets for your Browser (See Bookmarking Tools for more tools)

Activity 1: Search for resources. Then Save, Annotate, and Share.

Activity 2: Grow Your Personal Learning Network on Delicious

Network - Add People
Subscriptions - Subscribe to Tags (Keywords)
Del.icio.us for Teachers - A wiki with lots of teachers' user names! Find others - and add yourself!
Add your delicious account to this form! (And view the results here.)

Note: We did not get to the RSS and Google Reader segment before lunch.

Review: RSS for Professional Development using Google Reader (Time Permitting)

See our previous RSS page.
See the Google Reader in Plain English video from the Common Craft Show
Review of Subscribing with Google Reader
Overview of Share and Share with Notes (and Tags)
Adding "Friends"

Activity: Subscribe, Read, and Share with Notes (Time Permitting)

Post a link to your shared items page below:
- Your shared items page here!

LUNCH - 11:30 to 12:30

Discussion: Teacher Leadership & The Roll of The LITTs

Shared Google Doc for Note Taking

Overview: Online Learning Communities using Ning

See the Social Networking in Plain English video from the Common Craft show.
Walk-Through of Classroom 2.0
More Examples:
- For Professional Development
  - Classroom 2.0: http://www.classroom20.org
  - The CUE Community: http://community.cue.org
  - The League Learning Network (CLMS/CLHS): http://leaguelearn.ning.com
- For Students:
  - AP World History at West Hills: http://apworldhistory.ning. com/
  - Students (and Educators) Making a Difference: http:// workingtogether2makeadifferenc e.ning.com/
  - Student Videos about Changing Education: http://netgened. grownupdigital.com/
  - Collaborative Site for Creation of Global Music Video: http://globallean.ning.com/
- And Many More:
  - Ning in Education: http://education.ning.com/
  - Social Networks in Education: http://socialnetworksined. wikispaces.com/
Walk-Through of Creating a New Online Learning Community (for LITTs)

Activity A: Create a Proof-of-Concept Community for Your Class

Create an Online Learning Community you might use with your students. Include elements you think might be helpful and give some thought to how the layout and design might best support student learning. (If you actually use this, it will almost certainly evolve.)
Post a link to your new Online Learning Community below:
- http://adamssixth28.ning.com/
- Check out Amanda's Alta Vista social network. I am planning on using it with my fourth grade team to help us facilitate the sharing of documents and resources we've created. I'd like to have other 4th grade teachers in the district join too! http://altavista.ning.com/
- Here is Cindy's Spanish Amigo's page--not much yet! http://amigosderedondo.ning.com/
- Here's Diane's 6th grade social studies-please join http://6thgradesocialstudies.ning.com/
- Here is Susi's Jefferson Social Network http://jeffersonstaff.ning.com
- Here is Tim's first steps toward a network for AP Calculus AB http://ruhs316.ning.com/

Activity B: Contribute to a LITT Community

Note: This can essentially replace our Google Group.
Join the LITT community created during the walk-through.
Make contributions, such as any of the following:
- A Blog Post
- A Forum Topic or Question
- An Instructional Video or Images
- A Subgroup
Respond to others contributions.

Note: We did not get to the Ustream segment before the end of the day.

Demonstration: Streaming Video in Education using Ustream (Time Permitting)

See We All Scream for Ustream for Examples and An Outline
NEW: Ustream now has an application that allows you to stream from your (jailbroken) iPhone! - http://www.ustream.tv/mobile

Reflection Activity

Today's Reflection Activity
Reflection Activies (Another Blog Post - But Slightly Less Refined)

Online Evaluation
Take this evaluation in Spanish!

Evaluation Results

This wiki was originally developed by:
Mark Wagner, Ph.D.
President, Educational Technology and Life Corporation

2009-03-18